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Produced by
Michael Rosen and Testament 1990 - ATLANTIC RECORDING |
ERIC PETERSON - guitar
ALEX SKOLNICK - guitar
GREG CHRISTIAN - bass
LOUIE CLEMENTE - drums
CHUCK BILLY - vocals
1.
Beginning Of The End
2. Face In The Sky
3. Falling Fast
4. Souls Of Black
5. Absence Of Light
6. Love To Hate
7. Malpractice
8. One Man's Fate
9. The Legacy
10. Seven Days Of May
Music: Peterson
Lyrics: Billy
Music: Peterson, Skolnick
Shadows glow
from the full moonlight
Hear clouds cry, itīs so insane
Souls hold on to the key of life
See how itīs bleeding from the pain
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
Itīs live or die
Who am I?
Face In The Sky
Walk with me, my friend
to a darkened place
Welcome down to the abyss
Caught between two worlds
with no advocate
The legionsī army
Holds on to your fate
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
Itīs live or die
Who am I?
Face In The Sky
Screams from the night
seems to intensify
as the air shifts silent through
ghouls crowded in the clouds
on a misty night
guarding secrets
man has brought to you
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
Itīs live or die
Who am I?
Face In The Sky
Lyrics: Billy
Peterson, Clemente
Locked in a
darkened world
Made to never last
Thatīs where the dreams you seek
are like stories from the past
Sweet infant childīs born
Sweet mother of the womb
Hope it is over soon
Not to much more can I take
Help me lord
Iīm falling fast
Bring me back
Nerves slip away from
within your conscious mind
Translucent hopes are now
nothing but dismal lies
You lived your life so down
to the bitter end
Better think it over now
Your life has just begun
Help me lord
Iīm falling fast
Bring me back
from suicide
Just show me life is how
and not a bitter war
The odds in favor now
Itīs hard to live and learn
Silence the sorrow
and donīt let it slip away
Think of tomorrow
as the future of today
Help me lord
Iīm falling fast
Bring me back
from suicide
Iīm falling fast
Locked in a darkened world
Made to never last
Thatīs where the dreams you seek
are like stories from the past
Sweet infant childīs born
to the mother of the womb
Hope it is over soon
Not to much more can I take
Help me lord
Iīm falling fast
Bring me back
from suicide
Iīm falling fast
Lyrics: Billy
Music: Peterson, Skolnick, Clemente
Canīt you see
that in the world we live in
political lies
are just corporate decisions
They`ll take away
all the hopes, not their promises
Theyīll put an end to this
land of the livin
Look at the loust souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
They got control
of the heart of a nation
Their social bribes
seem so graciously
as time goes by
īCause time as you can see
will slowly die for you and me
Look at the loust souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
So put an end
to this idolization
Antagonizing so commonly
Open your eyes
īCause the lieīs there so plain to see
Life goes on
Thereīs no guarentees
Look at the loust souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
Theyīre bleeding so black
Lyrics: Billy,
Skolnick
Music: Peterson, Billy
Life, as we
know
Is full of gloom
Oppress the masses
Weīll lead to our doom
We want the right
to live or die
Canīt take away
what we feel inside
Like empty shadows
afflict our brains
Envision dreams
just to ease the pain
Thereīs more to life
than to satisfy
I ask myself
for the reason why
If it were my way
Iīd deliver us from this hell
If it were my way
If ever there comes a day
Renovations blown away
Is there no end
to this endless war
The fear of man
is now whatīs in store
We look at life as a memory
Long live the dreams
that they took from me
If it were my way
Iīd deliver us from this hell
If it were my way
Lyrics:
Peterson, Clemente, Billy
Music: Peterson, Skolnick
Hail to the
new leader now
Ruler of this land
with plans that follow
to demonstrate
Fear the blackened band
So horrid
and deathly true
Dishonest and powermad
Unspoken, sealed fate
Bursting to desolate
His love to hate
Heīll murder souls like me and you
But a long the way
Heīll have to dwell
in his own hell
Clear the streets
See them marching
while columns take a stand
Time provoked, their mirror of hatred
with dark uncanny plans
to take out
and follow through
Just following their orders
with death rates
and deathīs toll
Those unfortunate souls
His love to hate
Heīll murder souls like me and you
But a long the way
Heīll have to dwell
in his own hell
Twisting and turning
through the mazes in your head
But in a time like this
youīre better off dead
The time has come now
Put up or shut down
The feeling that you have
were lost and never found
His love to hate
Heīll murder souls like me and you
But a long the way
Heīll have to dwell
in his own hell
Lyrics:
Skolnick, Billy
Music: Skolnick, Peterson
We all will go
and stay sometime
Soon to be a victim of a crime
Loss of blood and death is near
Take a number, can you you wait right here
Check in-to the place
Reduce your life into disgrace
Isnīt there some kind
of better way
When itīs time to operate
fatalistic figures hold on to your fate
just relax youīll feel no pain
Hope they put you in the right domain
Patients helpless to defy
Negligence is why
His love to hate
Heīll murder souls like me and you
But a long the way
Heīll have to dwell
in his own hell
Within the laws
theyīll rip you off
then write you off
Malpractice!
And in the end
theyīll let you in
Please come again
Malpractice!
Suffer until you get well
Bleak existence like a prision cell
If you find your life is lost
Dedicate the world to pay the cost
Patients helpless defy
Negligence is why
Within the laws
theyīll rip you off
then write you off
Malpractice!
And in the end
theyīll let you in
Please come again
Malpractice!
Lyrics: Billy
Music: Peterson, Clemente
Time is
nothing but lifeīs decay
Pitch your reverend path
This is the path you paved
What you will find
is lifeīs only way
Thereīs no looking back
There must be a better way
Lightning skies
Prayers from an open grave
A dead manīs eyes
Must be a dead manīs day
Black skies fade to a shadow grey
The darkness is so deep
Prayers for the light of the day
What you will find
is lifeīs only way
Thereīs no looking back
back to a better way
Lightning skies
Prayers from an open grave
A dead manīs eyes
Must be a dead manīs day
that leads to one manīs fate
There ainīt no better way to die
Fate, thereīs no compromise
Hate leads to suicide
Trapped in a crystal haze
Hail to a dead manīs day
Time is but a passageway
trying to believe
your life was sanity
A matter of time
is all that you need
Lifeīs not coming back
back to those better days
Lightning skies
Prayers from an open grave
A dead manīs eyes
Must be a dead manīs day
Lyrics:
Skolnick, Billy, Peterson
Music: Peterson, Clemente, Skolnick
We`re gonna
take you back
through the pages of the past
Just another lonely boy
I could laugh and play
and live in any other way
Then the devil took my soul
The fortune and the fame
I knew I was not the same
and I knowIīd never return
Looking at the sky
I know I would never die
And forever shining through
Wish the sky would say
that blue would turn to grey
and I know Iīd be there
Life was like a fantasy
taken by reality
Does anyone remember me
You once knew me
Flashes of the day
I knew I was here to stay
But no one stays the same
Turn the pages back in time
through the chapters in my mind
Lifeīs too short to leave behind
Itīs to late know
Life was like a fantasy
taken by reality
Does anyone remember me
You once knew me
Flashes of the day
I knew I was here to stay
But no one
knows my name
Lyrics:
Skolnick, Billy
Music: Peterson, Skolnick
Put your life
on the line
To hesitate is a waste of time
No giving in to repent
unto the system of the government
Itīs called the Peopleīs Republic here
The propaganda so sincere
Oh, what a joke and a blatant lie
from criminals ranking high
Born a political prisoner
Raised outside of the law
Iīm gonna keep on fighting
until I die for the cause
Put an end to hypocrisy
Lead the way to Democracy
No longer will we play the fool
to brutalized military rule
They started forty years ago
We never could say yes or no
Millions souls make your voice
We want the right to make a choice
Born a political prisoner
Raised outside of the law
Iīm gonna keep on fighting
until I die for the cause
Freedom, freedom calling
out from the pain
Freedom, freedom calling
seven days of May
They tried to show a peaceful path
then it turned into a blood bath
In the Square they plan the game
Thatīs when the tanks of the army came
They called the murders minimal
Descibed their victims as criminals
Dead souls like you and me
who only wanted free society
Born a political prisoner
Raised outside of the law
Iīm gonna keep on fighting
until I die for the cause
Freedom, freedom calling
out from the pain
Freedom, freedom calling
seven days of May
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